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Serbia, July – August 2008: A travelogue
Punctuated Equilibrium July 24, 2008. I arrive with my Serbian-American wife and Christopher, my teenage son, in Belgrade after a connecting flight from London on an old Yugoslavian Airline 735. Pedrag, my wife’s affable, wry, and hospitable cousin, is there to meet us. We go together to Pedrag’s apartment. The outside of his apartment building is old, dilapidated, and covered […]
A Spreading Fire
Punctuated Equilibrium It is easy to become discouraged when contemplating the stranglehold the Israel Lobby has on American policy in the Middle East. One could compile a long list of actions taken by our government at the behest of the Lobby that serve the interests of Israel but not America. Exhibit A in this list […]
Who Is Responsible for Fatherless Black Families? The Reverend Jeremiah Wright: A Memory from the Army
Few people I know had a more abrupt transition from their college education to the workplace than I did. I was enamored of the liberal arts, majoring in philosophy, with a minor in English literature. Practical studies were anathema. But then I graduated. I soon learned that there is not much you can do with […]
Richard Spencer’s Mom-gate
Donald Trump as Zionist
Joyeux Noёl: The Beginnings of WWI and the Christmas Truce of 1914
